Rasam Vada

Rasam Vada – From the kitchen of Sri Devi Badiga

Serves 6 people

Rasam Vada
Ingredients for Rasam
For Boiling:

  • ½ kg desi tomatoes
  • 100 grams tamarind
  • 1 tsp mirchi powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 10 grams jaggery / gud
  • 1 bunch of coriander leaves
  • 6 stems of curry leaves
  • For Roasting:

  • 2 tsp Coriander seeds
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds / jeera
  • 10 whole pepper corns
  • For Seasoning:

  • 1 tsp oil
  • 5 cloves garlic
  • 1/4thfat Mustard seeds / rai
  • 1/4th cumin seeds / jeera
  • 1/4th fenugreek seeds/ methi
  • 1 stem curry leaves
  • 1 pinch of asafoetida/hing
  • Method

  • Wash and boil in water the ingredients mentioned for boiling for 15-20 minutes in one liter of water, do not pressure cook.

  • Cool and mash it with a wooden spatula and strain through a large hole strainer.

  • Roast the roasting ingredients mentioned above, for a little while and grind them in a mixer.

  • Add them to the gravy.

  • Heat the oil then add methi, rai, jeera and then add the pounded garlic cloves without removing their skin.

  • Put curry leaves, and lastly put the hing.

  • Add the seasoning to the gravy and bring the rasam to boil.

  • Remove and put cut coriander leaves.

  • Ingredients for Vada
    40 Vadas sized of 1 inch.

  • 200 grams of black gram dal with the skin/ urad dal
  • Oil to fry.
  • Method

  • Wash urad dal and soak in water for 4-6 hours.

  • Remove the skin.

  • Grind the dal to make a smooth thick batter. The water absorbed by dal while soaking is enough for grinding.

  • If batter is thick, sprinkle a few drops of ice water now and then.

  • Do not grind it in a mixer, but grind in a dosa grinder.

  • Heat the oil; pour 1 tsp of batter in your left hand. Pat it with water with your other hand.

  • Slide it gently into hot oil, fry for a minute and turn over, remove and put it immediately in warm rasam.

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